by Alexander Schauer
Are IT Services Cooperative?
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 4 years ago | 850 viewsRating:

A cross-cultural study on individual, team, organisational and institutional factors affecting knowledge sharing willingness in the IT services industry – a general overview and summary of initial results.

This talk is about harnessing human time and energy to address problems that computers cannot yet solve. Although computers have advanced dramatically in many respects over the last 50 years, they still do not possess the basic conceptual intelligenc....

by Sharon Ruston
Natural History and the Rights of Woman
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 4 years ago | 786 viewsRating:

During the two-year period of the composition and publication of her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of Mary Shelley and early advocate of women’s rights, read and reviewed a number of important works of n....

by Manuel Castells
Social networks in the internet.
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 6 years ago | 730 viewsRating:

The Web has become the fabric of our lives. However, its understanding in terms of social practice is obscured by ideology and media sensationalism, in spite of the fact that social sciences have gathered over the last decade a solid record of empiri....

Based on new international research undertaken with IPSOS Mori, the British Council's Trust Pays report considers questions such as How trusted is the UK? Does cultural exchange shape opinions of Britain? Does the level of trust have an impact on tra....

Pharmacist, philanthropist – and Fellow of the Royal Society – Sir Henry Wellcome is now widely recognised as one of the most acquisitive of collectors during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But Wellcome’s collection of histo....